CVE-2020-35733

HIGH

Erlang/OTP < 23.2.2 - Improper Certificate Validation

Title source: llm

Description

An issue was discovered in Erlang/OTP before 23.2.2. The ssl application 10.2 accepts and trusts an invalid X.509 certificate chain to a trusted root Certification Authority.

References (5)

Core 5

Core References

Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://www.erlang.org/news

Product, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://www.erlang.org/downloads

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases

Mailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2021-January/100357.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E4CXZWUOZELT7A5ZN6DJRQHX7L35V4PW/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0115

EPSS Percentile 62.8%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE

CWE-295

Status published

Products (2)

erlang/erlang\/otp < 23.2.2

fedoraproject/fedora 33

Published Jan 15, 2021

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026